Railpictures Ca Bill Thomson Photo Numerous Fantrips Were Run In The Caption: cp g1 2214 and g3 2332 waiting in streetsville, to take an nrhs fan trip back to guelph junction and on to hamilton in 1959. this trip was well noted at the time as six locomotives were used two mikes (2 8 2), two pacifics (4 6 2, of which the two g class units pictured were), and two ten wheelers (a common nickname for cpr's d10 class 4 6 0 steamers). Cp's newest selkirks built in 1949 were retired at only 10 years of age. while a few steam engines escaped the scrapper's torch via donation to museums, displays, sale to private groups or individuals and use in excursion service, the vast majority were unceremoniously cut up for scrap in the late 50's and early 60's.
Railpictures Ca Bil Thomson Photo A Buffalo Chapter Nrhs Fantrip Ran Caption: the last run of canadian pacific train #21, with cp fp9 1412 leading an f7b, is shown at guelph junction station (note the platforms and semaphone signals behind the train) on april 25th 1964. cp #21 was a long established full service train that ran from montreal to toronto, and on to windsor and detroit. Railpictures.ca is sad to learn of the passing of one of our long time photo contributors, bill thomson, who recently passed on july 2nd. our staff had worked with bill for a number of years to edit. Railpictures.ca bill thomson photo: here’s an aerial view of the downtown toronto railway lands taken from the bank of commerce building’s observation deck in september 1964. visible in the foreground is toronto’s union station on front stree. tens of thousands of great canadian railway photographs, discussions, and much more. By this time in 1958 canadian steam had less than 2 years to go, but nevertheless, fires still burned brightly in many fireboxes across the country. witness the following image by bill thomson and be.
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